CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT REQUEST FORMS DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT IS MARCH 9, 2018 Return your completed packet by one of the following methods: Any time before Friday at 4:00 p.m. CE Drop Box at the AAFS Onsite Registration Desk OR Mail for receipt by March 9, 2018, to: Kimberly Wrasse AAFS 410 North 21 st Street Colorado Springs, CO 80904 The forms may not be returned via fax or email. CERTIFICATES WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE ACCESS APPROXIMATELY APRIL 15.
PLEASE READ INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY. INCOMPLETE PACKETS WILL BE RETURNED FOR CORRECTION/COMPLETION. Instructions for Completion: Requests for Continuing Education Credit/Certificates must be received by March 9, 2018. $100 Continuing Education Administrative Fee. If you did not pay the fee with your registration, you may pay upon submission. In order to receive a certificate and credit, you must submit the Credit Reporting Form (page 3) and the Session Attendance Worksheets (pages 4-7). Do not write additional sessions on worksheet. The sessions on the Session Attendance Worksheet have been approved for continuing education credit. If a particular session is not listed, either the session is not eligible for continuing education credit (e.g., Bring Your Own Slides, Evening Special Sessions, YFSF BYOS, YFSF Posters, and sponsored sessions) or it is an outside groups (e.g., ABFO, ASFO, NAME) and they will issue their own certificate. You may not claim hours that exceed the printed Maximum Hours for each session. The hours listed are the number of hours that have been preapproved. The eligible number of continuing education hours has been rounded to the nearest.25 hour. You may not claim full attendance in sessions that overlap (e.g., if you are claiming full attendance at the morning and afternoon scientific sessions and there is only one hour in between the two sessions, you may not claim the full hour and a half for attendance at the Poster Session). It is the attendee s responsibility to document which sessions were attended, the length of time in attendance, and most importantly, if the session will be of educational value or beneficial to your professional practice. Packets may only be submitted after all session attendance has been completed. As a provider of Continuing Education, AAFS will maintain records of all continuing education credit awarded annually for confirmation by any of the attendees or accrediting continuing education agencies. 2
2018 CREDIT REPORTING FORM The CREDIT REPORTING FORM and SESSION ATTENDANCE WORKSHEETS must be received by March 9, 2018. PRINT FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, AND DEGREE: PLEASE SELECT ONE CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT CATEGORY: Medical (AMA PRA Category 1) MD, DO (or equivalent medical degree), or PhD Psychologist Non-Physician Medical Per AMA, the number of CE hours attended can not be included on Non-Physician Medical certificates. If you wish to receive hours/credits, you may want to request the General category instead. Dental American Dental Association (ADA) Legal AAFS is not a pre-approved provider for any state. You may self-report your hours as needed. General for those whose discipline is not represented in one of the categories above. Should you require reporting to an agency, you may submit a copy of the forthcoming AAFS continuing education certificate directly to that agency. DECLARATION OF CREDIT: I affirm that I attended the sessions and hours indicated on my Session Attendance Worksheets. Signature: Certificates will be uploaded to the AAFS Web Portal approximately April 15. An email with the directives on accessing your certificate will be sent from no-reply@aafs.org with the subject line AAFS CE Credit/Certificate. 3
2018 SESSION ATTENDANCE WORKSHEET The SESSION ATTENDANCE WORKSHEETS must be returned with the CREDIT REPORTING FORM. Please read the Instructions for Request Forms Completion page 2; incomplete submissions will be returned. Write the actual number of hours in attendance in the Hours Attended column ( or not acceptable). Hours Attended are awarded in increments of.25 (15 minutes), round to the nearest quarter hour, as necessary. Hours Attended may not exceed the Max Hour column, even if a session runs long. 4 HOURS ATTENDED (MAX HOURS) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19 7:00 am - 8:30 am BREAKFAST SEMINAR #1: Analytical Thinking Skills (.75) 8:30 am - 12:00 pm WORKSHOP #1: Proposed Revisions to the FBI QA Standards - DNA 8:30 am - 12:05 pm WORKSHOP #2: A Forensic Expert s Guide to Bestiality and Zoophilia 8:30 am - 12:30 pm WORKSHOP #3: Alternate Light Source Photography (3.75) 8:30 am - 12:30 pm WORKSHOP #4: Applications of Raman Spectroscopy for Trace Evidence Examinations 8:30 am - 12:30 pm WORKSHOP #5: Ohio s Assertive Approach to Scheduling Opioids and Fentanyl Analogs (3.5) 8:30 am - 4:30 pm WORKSHOP #6: Machine-Readable Technologies in Travel and Identify Documents (6.25) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP #7: Data Standards, Archiving, and Analytics in Forensic Anthropology (7.25) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP #8: Innovative Teaching With Active Learning Methods (6.5) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP #9: Putting the Expert on Trial (6.75) 8:30 am - 5:20 pm WORKSHOP #10: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Dogfighting Cases (7.25) 8:30 am - 5:45 pm WORKSHOP #11: A Forensic Analysis of Burnt Remains (7.5) 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm WORKSHOP #12: Eric Zimmerman s Open Source Forensic Tools Library (2.0) 1:00 pm - 6:00 pm WORKSHOP #13: Moving From the CPI to Probabilistic Genotyping for DNA Mixture (4.5) 1:00 pm - 6:05 pm WORKSHOP #14: Pharmacogenomics Uses in Forensic and Clinical Toxicology (4.75) MONDAY TOTAL HOURS: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 7:00 am - 8:30 am BREAKFAST SEMINAR #2: My Experiences as a Forensic Science Consultant (.75) 8:30 am - 12:30 pm SPECIAL SESSION #1: Interdisciplinary Symposium (3.75) 8:30 am - 12:30 pm WORKSHOP #15: Postmortem Monocular Indirect Ophthalmoscopy (3.75) 8:30 am - 12:45 pm WORKSHOP #16: Forensic Image Processing (4.0) 8:30 am - 4:30 pm WORKSHOP #17: An Introduction to Lean Fundamentals and Six Sigma Operational Improvement (6.0) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm SPECIAL SESSION #2: Young Forensic Scientists Forum (day presentations only) (6.0) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP #18: Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Deaths (6.0) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP #19: The Evolution of Fire Investigation From the Perspective of Science (6.25) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP #20: Fentalogs (6.75) 8:30 am - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP #21: Macromorphoscopic (MMS) Traits (7.25)
HOURS ATTENDED (MAX HOURS) TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20 8:30 am - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP #22: Science Matters to Everyone: Victims, Offenders, and the Public (6.5) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm WORKSHOP #23: Cardiovascular Pathology for Medical Examiners and Coroners (3.5) 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm WORKSHOP #24: Think Tank on the Leading Edge of Forensic Science (4.0) TUESDAY TOTAL HOURS: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21 7:00 am - 8:30 am BREAKFAST SEMINAR #3: The Lawyers Always Win (.75) 9:00 am - 11:30 am Plenary Session (2.5) 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Poster Sessions (viewing starts at 10:00 am; presenters available starting at 11:30 am) (1.5) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Toxicology Poster Session (1.5) WEDNESDAY TOTAL HOURS: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 7:00 am - 8:30 am BREAKFAST SEMINAR #4: YFSF Wake Up to Professional Development (.75) Morning Scientific Sessions: 8:30 am - 10:45 am Multidisciplinary Session - Criminalistics Session II, General Session II, Pathology/Biology Session I, Toxicology (2.25) 8:30 am - 11:30 am Psychiatry & Behavioral Science (2.75) 8:30 am - 11:45 am Odontology 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Anthropology Session I - Antemortem and Peri-Mortem Skeletal Trauma & Biological Profile: Sex Determination 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Anthropology Session II - Facilities, Databases, Ethics, and Professionalism & Taphonomy and Postmortem Interval 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Engineering Sciences 8:30 am - 12:00 pm General Session I 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Jurisprudence 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Pathology/Biology Session II - Biology 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Questioned Documents (2.75) 8:30 am - 12:10 pm Criminalistics Session I - Mathematics, Mixtures, and Modeling I & Ancestry, Identification, and Kinship (3.5) 8:30 am - 12:15 pm Digital & Multimedia Sciences (3.5) 9:00 am - 11:50 am Pathology/Biology Session III - Jay Dix Memorial Bonus Day (2.75) 11:00 am - 11:45 am Toxicology (.75) 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Criminalistics Session II - Improving the Practice of Criminalistics (1.0) 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Poster Sessions **You may not claim 1.5 hrs if your am session ended after 11:30** (1.5) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm LUNCHEON SEMINAR #1: Post-Conviction DNA Testing (1.0) Afternoon Scientific Sessions: 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm Psychiatry & Behavioral Science (2.25) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Engineering Sciences (3.75) 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Odontology (3.75) 5
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Toxicology HOURS ATTENDED (MAX HOURS) (3.75) 1:00 pm - 5:15 pm Criminalistics Session II - Trace Evidence I & Fingerprints and Firearms (4.0) 1:15 pm - 5:00 pm General Session I (3.5) 1:15 pm - 5:10 pm Digital & Multimedia Sciences (3.5) 1:15 pm - 5:15 pm Criminalistics Session I - Sequencing: The Next Generation I & Bodily Fluid I (B70 not eligible for CE credit) (3.5) 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Jurisprudence 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Pathology/Biology Session II - Imaging & Systemic Issues (2.75) 1:30 pm - 5:15 pm Questioned Documents 1:45 pm - 5:00 pm Anthropology Session I - Histology and Quality Assurance & Biological Profile: Age Estimation and Ancestry Determination 1:45 pm - 5:00 pm Anthropology Session II - Humanitarian Forensic Science & Forensic Archaeology 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Pathology/Biology Session III - Jay Dix Memorial Bonus Day (1.75) 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Last Word Society (1.75) THURSDAY TOTAL HOURS: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 7:00 am - 8:30 am BREAKFAST SEMINAR #5: The Making of an Opioid Crisis in America? (.75) Morning Scientific Sessions: 8:30 am - 11:25 am Psychiatry & Behavioral Science (2.75) 8:30 am - 11:45 am Anthropology 8:30 am - 11:45 am Odontology 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Multidisciplinary Session - Pathology/Biology Session II & Toxicology 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Criminalistics Session I - Sequencing: The Next Generation II & DNA Interpretation and Instrumental 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Criminalistics Session II - Trace Evidence II 8:30 am - 12:00 pm General Session I 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Jurisprudence 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Pathology/Biology Session I - Brain and Heart & Postmortem Changes 8:30 am - 12:15 pm Digital & Multimedia Sciences (3.5) 8:30 am - 12:15 pm Engineering Sciences (3.5) 8:50 am - 12:00 pm Questioned Documents 11:30 am - 1:00 pm Poster Sessions **You may not claim 1.5 hrs if your am session ended after 11:30** (1.5) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm LUNCHEON SEMINAR #2: Understanding the Impact of Human Factors on Forensic Science (1.0) Afternoon Scientific Sessions: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Multidisciplinary Session - Criminalistics Session II, General Session II (2.0) 1:00 pm - 4:45 pm Odontology (3.5) 1:00 pm - 4:45 pm Psychiatry & Behavioral Science 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm Toxicology (3.75) 6
HOURS ATTENDED (MAX HOURS) FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23 1:00 pm - 5:15 pm Criminalistics Session I - Mathematics, Mixtures, and Modeling II & The Wild (DNA) Kingdom (4.0) 1:15 pm - 2:25 pm Multidisciplinary Session - Digital & Multimedia Sciences & Engineering Sciences (1.25) 1:15 pm - 5:00 pm General Session I (3.5) 1:30 pm - 4:45 pm Jurisprudence 1:30 pm - 4:45 pm Pathology/Biology Session II - Forensic Potpourri & Miscellaneous (2.75) 1:30 pm - 5:00 pm Pathology/Biology Session I - Pediatrics & Environment 1:30 pm - 5:15 pm Anthropology (3.5) 3:15 pm - 5:00 pm Criminalistics Session II - Advances in Chemical and Instrumental Analyses (1.75) FRIDAY TOTAL HOURS: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 8:15 am - 12:00 pm Criminalistics Session II - Analysis of Seized Drugs II & Gunshot Residue (3.5) 8:30 am - 12:00 pm Criminalistics Session I - Bodily Fluid II & Management and Philosophy SATURDAY TOTAL HOURS: DAILY TOTALS: MONDAY TOTAL HOURS: TUESDAY TOTAL HOURS: WEDNESDAY TOTAL HOURS: THURSDAY TOTAL HOURS: FRIDAY TOTAL HOURS: SATURDAY TOTAL HOURS: GRAND TOTAL OF REQUESTED CE HOURS: *Please note that that the number of hours requested may not be the number of hours issued after administrative review. 7
INDIVIDUAL SESSION EVALUATION FORMS Completion of evaluations is optional. Evaluation responses are helpful to AAFS in evaluating your learning, the effectiveness of the meeting and the Continuing Education Program, and in the planning of future meetings. All responses will be kept anonymous and will be used to evaluate the program. List any topics (continuing education needs) that you would recommend for presentation at a future meeting. When completing the evaluations below, please identify each evaluation by using the session titles as listed on the Session Attendance Worksheet (eg. Pathology/Biology Session I ) and whether it was the am or pm session. 8
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